Mina may refer to: 1  Mina, a folk word related with the extraction of mineral resources (mines). 2  Mina (given name) , a given name (and list of people and characters with that name). 3  Mina (surname) , a surname (and list of people with that name).
Salts can be easily identified, since they usually consist of positive ions from a metal with negative ions from a non metal. The salt we put on our fries is actually sodium chloride and is made up of metal Na1+ and non metal Cl1- ions. Often you will see this written as Na+ and Cl- (the 1 is dropped) or simply NaCl.
Sea salts are coarser and grainier than table salt because the former undergo less processing than the latter, Rumsey said. Sea salts are made from evaporated sea water. Table salt, on the other hand, usually comes from underground salt mines and is processed into finer crystals. (Fun fact: If you're a sea salt fanatic and are confident your local seawaters arenât polluted, you can make your own .).